How do I contact someone in the community I would love to go visit learn more hopefully have a vacation home in the town. Support the community in whatever way I can
What a great video. The Chief is so articulate and has some great plans for people. I had heard of Cockpit Country, but never realised it was an autonomous state. So interesting. Keep up the good work Rochielin.
🙏 these videos are so important! Girl... you know what you doing for your people. It is past time these folks are accepted and their sovereignty respected! Much like the sovereign American tribes in America! They need to take their place in the world ! bless up ! Bless up Chief Currie I believe with your leadership your ppl can move forward in all prosperity and health! Rewriting the text books! Nanny Cuffie and Quaco plus all your forbears are dancing and singing!
Thank you for another interesting and amazing discussion with chief Richard Currie. Information is vital yet powerful and communicates a wider world continues to open up mind. Appreciate bringing an updated version and the new and how the community works. Nuff respect lady! 💯🆙🆙👏💃🏾👀😇💐
Watch it 3 hours ago but only now having breakfast so taking time to commend....or comment. First out the block is a huge thank you to Rochielin and Mr Curry for another great lesson. Next is a suggestion that I'm not aware if it exist already but post Covid(forever), I would recommend building Cabanas and setting up a Tourism schedule with members of the Maroon community combined to guide the visitors etc for a package fee. If the wild pigs he mentioned in your previous video can be reared in an enclosure for commercial purposes that can be a boost from an export EC/US revenue earning possibility. Thank you, the camera person and of course Mr Richard Curry, Maroon Chief.
No tours unless it's a collective agreement with the ppl and Chief. Ppl want to see just go. Chief said they welcome anyone who are bringing ideas and interest in making Accompong well structured community. Keep it in the community
@@ingridb1618 i suspect you missed the part where he clearly mentioned 'Bed and Breakfast accommodations ' Even showed one of the houses. You may have also missed Rochielin's previous vlog or episode visiting Mooretown, the guided educational tour to the waterfall etc. The link for the guided tours were in that episode and the contact info for the guide was also available.
@@gasixteenb11 I watched the other episode. I saw the rental properties. I making observations even though they do provide the tours if that's what they do. Some things should be left to the unknown. Portland maroon town do have tours but ty hey are more preserved, if I remember. I am going on bits of memory when I viewed the others.
@@ingridb1618 a lot is left unknown and that's been said in all Rochielin's Maroon journeys. Chief Curry said that during the celebration on 6th January only Maroon people are part of the final procession while the visitors are left at the Kindah tree until they return. No Maroon will ever share certain rituals or other information that can compromise their identity. Please also please do not assume the Maroons don't know what they are doing. I'll share this... the system of leadership not governance is what was bought from homeland and proven to work for the interest of a community. There are no budget being provided to Chief Curry or his Colonels for management of the State of Cockpit Country and for a very long time progress has been dependant on contributions from each member along with those from persons visiting or simply giving donations through Maroon official fund programs. It's not possible for anybody to just enter the State without knowledge of the Maroons and go roaming or destroying the environment. The Maroons do have a tested security system so be assured harm will only come to a violator and that was proven. Just ask about the man who went to dig for riches. Lolll.
Love your videos beautiful Rochelin! You & Wode Maya (Ghanaian TH-cam) need to link up & do a video together one of these days. Keep up the great work. May Yah continue to bless & keep you ❤️
Okay so when i made my comment i was only highlighting that i personally expected him to say something different lol. They probably are just “spiritual” but without dedication to practice it’s challenging to tell whether or not someone is experiencing the benefits of spiritual awareness. It’s just something I’m personally learning from studying ancient mysticism.
Wow. People really want to change history. Les marrons (french) are just one of the tribes from Africa brought to the Caraïbe by the colonial They are all over the mountains in Haiti and the other islands in the all Caraïbes. Please God for preserving the culture which is no differente from. the others africans tribes One of the lady dances exactly the same way as the Haitian from the mountain. Everything looks the SAME . I was choked to see the resemblance. Thanks for that.
My wife loves listening to Shaggy. As a gag gift, I am giving her a picture of Shaggy with the caption "If fluffy white women were on my bucket list, you would be at the top of my list." My question is how would a Jamaican write these words?
We have to be careful of the information we put out there. The maroons in Jamaica initially had a great and powerful history of fighting the British and getting a treaty. However in subsequent wars the British thoroughly defeated the maroons and deported many of them and forced them to install a British soldier as the head of their forces. The maroons had to get the approval of the British to appoint a captain and were little more than an unpaid militia of the British who were compelled to come and fight alongside the British were Jamaica to be invaded. They were also little more than slave capturers, who were paid very little for the return of runaway slaves. What in that makes them sovereign. At most the maroon lands are a municipality of Jamaica and we are contributing to the endangerment of Jamaica and a division of its people if we continued to push a false narrative that two sovereign people share the island, utter nonsense. Jamaica is politically on country with a varied history of great people. The early maroons were the heroes. The later maroons devolved in nothing more than slave patrols and un unpaid militia. Rochielin, I love your channel and all of your contents except this. This narrative is very dangerous to the country I think.
The only people who are indigenous to Jamaica are the Arawaks and Caribs. But they're no more. The Maroons have the same genetic profile as the other JA residents. There's is only one sovereignty; and that is the government of JA, whose laws reign supreme. Considering the foregoing, the Maroons can be considered a subculture with alternate norms & more's.
Well actually there is one Sovereignty and that is the Creator of this world…this universe. The government is a temporary place holder chosen to rule for now and they are doing a horrible job. So maybe it is best these people try to manage themselves the best way they can because the government isn’t doing anything much for the rest of the Jamaican population🤷🏽♀️.
@@shauniek The constitution that brought forth JA independence didn't mention the Maroons' treaty, so it would appear to be inconsequential. So at this point in history, the JA government just tolerate their existence as a sort of beneficial ceremony.
@@franklinchinquee4293 I've seen clips of where the JA constitution said the laws pertaining to them remains. I think people who have their eyes on that piece of land should just leave the people alone. Jamaica should think of others ways than mining away it's environment to make capital.
The Maroons are not an independent people Within Jamaica; that is a fallacy that they and those who don't know better says, they had a treaty with the British, which was revoked when Jamaica became an Independent Nation, they are subject to the Laws of Jamaica As Any other Citizen, they have to use a Jamaican passport like the rest of us, they have the right to Vote in elections, Send their Children to Schools Funded by the Government, there is no independent people apart from the Jamaican people.
All my life I thought the Maroons were a tribe, only to find out the word Maroon is a British term for black person. They were a set of enslaved people who had had enough and fought for their freedom. I think half of who claiming to be Maroon are not even descendants of the original freedom fighters.
@@uhuru27 The Jamaican Maroons are our Jamaican Brothers And sisters, but the truth is the Treaty that they sign with the British is Now Null and Void, it was Repeal/Revoked/ Cancelled by the British Themselves, When Jamaica became A Political Independent Country With Effect from the 6th of August 1962, The Maroons Today are Jamaicans, The Constitution of Jamaica is the Supreme Law in Jamaica, We are All one people, They are Free To Carry on Their Tradition, And they are Free to Mix and live Anywhere they Choose to in Jamaica, but They are Not An Independent Sovereign Nation within Jamaica, proof of that is There is no Such Thing As A Maroon pass-port, Like the rest of us, they are entitled to police protection, they can Vote, They are entitled to hospital Treatment, the Government of Jamaica Must provide Schools for their Children, and they are entitled As Citizens to Sharing in the General Economy, I'm not sure if they have to pay Tax Like the rest of us, Today, There is No distinction or difference Whatsoever, in the rights and Obligations As defined by The Law of Jamaica, between persons residing in the Maroon Settlements and Those of Any Other Jamaican Citizen, but this Idea That they Are a Sovereign Independent people within Jamaica, is an illusion a Fantasy. that was some one hundred to Two hundred years ago, Not Know.
Thanks for watching Fam, click here to watch Part 2 th-cam.com/video/XDhXqe5aFpo/w-d-xo.html
Can I send money to help
How do I contact someone in the community I would love to go visit learn more hopefully have a vacation home in the town. Support the community in whatever way I can
This month of October is Rochelin Marathon month,please share,show her much love and lets marathon her channel to the next level
Thank you sooo much .😁😁😁 let’s goooo!
Good conversation Rochielin! Continue to display Jamaica in a great way. 🇯🇲 🇨🇦
This series will definitely go viral! Keep doing what you do sis! ❤️💯
Thanks love! 🤞
My grandmother was of the Maroons. I've been there once when I was living in Mandeville❤️
Chief your a great representative of your people.
What a great video. The Chief is so articulate and has some great plans for people.
I had heard of Cockpit Country, but never realised it was an autonomous state. So interesting.
Keep up the good work Rochielin.
Welcome back it's been a while thanks for the general knowledge on the maroons, very interesting.
❤I am so impressed with what the chief is saying. Glad I found this video. I will be watching the series.
I would watch part 2 right now, a swear
Soon lol
Had to subcribe
So I'm like glued on the channel. Yuh dun know ain't.
Aye Rochielin show Mommylin what to click so when you stick she can upload or go live nah. We want more people drowning in the radio stories.
It drop
Hey Roch, this was some very good information , thanks for sharing, love the video👍💯.
It’s so beautiful there I’m tired of these buildings In America
Beautiful Place,Awesome Interview
Thanks for watching love
can i rent a place there to stay for some time?
Great Video and very Informative... Thanks to Chief Currie and Rochielin for the knowledge... 👍👍💯💯🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
You have become such a good journalist. Very proud of you
Thanks Princess Rochielin loving this video 🇯🇲❤🇸🇳
Love this!! Thank you for the highlight.
So informative and absolutely fascinating. I wish Chief Currie much success in all his endeavors. Thank you Rochielin for bringing this to us.
Thanks for watching 😁😁
This is gonna be very informative for my future social studies classes
God Bless you Hi Love it
🙏 these videos are so important! Girl... you know what you doing for your people. It is past time these folks are accepted and their sovereignty respected! Much like the sovereign American tribes in America! They need to take their place in the world ! bless up ! Bless up Chief Currie I believe with your leadership your ppl can move forward in all prosperity and health! Rewriting the text books! Nanny Cuffie and Quaco plus all your forbears are dancing and singing!
My grandfather on my dad's side was from there. I know that I am Igbo because that's what he told my aunts.
I would watch these videos all day. The scenery is just breathtaking. Very inspiring!
Beautiful content
Very informalive, Looking forward to the other episodes familin
Always doing good work rochielin 💜
Great insight into the Maroons......Well done....waiting for Part(3)
Love this so much,love you nanny of the maroons
Flava checking in sis big up. Wow always wanted to go but now you make me want to visit more 💯🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
You definitely should
Let's go Let's go let's go Let's go let's goooo
Great video.... you read my mind on this one
Still would love that collaboration or interview
love to see it thank you roch this will help me with history class
Part 2 was recommended to me but let me watch one first
Wow. learning a lot. can't for the next one
Thanks for watching love
Informative enjoy this and great questions to the chief so that we can understand a piece of our history. xoxo
Thank you for another interesting and amazing discussion with chief Richard Currie. Information is vital yet powerful and communicates a wider world continues to open up mind. Appreciate bringing an updated version and the new and how the community works. Nuff respect lady! 💯🆙🆙👏💃🏾👀😇💐
Very interesting learning so much thank you
The streets look so clean...
Princess Rochielin a love that last question you ask him,cause me want to know how it work interesting conversation
Wow wow great sharing BiG thanks for this video
The content I love to see! It's very interesting 🤔 🤩❤
Love this history 💝💝💝💕💕💕💕
That's good medicine is extracted from plants.
Love your videos. I'm in Florida. Haven't been home in over 20yrs. Keep up the good work.
Thanks love , thanks for watching!!!
Your doing a great job queen
Quite informative!
Watch it 3 hours ago but only now having breakfast so taking time to commend....or comment. First out the block is a huge thank you to Rochielin and Mr Curry for another great lesson. Next is a suggestion that I'm not aware if it exist already but post Covid(forever), I would recommend building Cabanas and setting up a Tourism schedule with members of the Maroon community combined to guide the visitors etc for a package fee. If the wild pigs he mentioned in your previous video can be reared in an enclosure for commercial purposes that can be a boost from an export EC/US revenue earning possibility. Thank you, the camera person and of course Mr Richard Curry, Maroon Chief.
No tours unless it's a collective agreement with the ppl and Chief. Ppl want to see just go. Chief said they welcome anyone who are bringing ideas and interest in making Accompong well structured community. Keep it in the community
@@ingridb1618 i suspect you missed the part where he clearly mentioned 'Bed and Breakfast accommodations ' Even showed one of the houses. You may have also missed Rochielin's previous vlog or episode visiting Mooretown, the guided educational tour to the waterfall etc. The link for the guided tours were in that episode and the contact info for the guide was also available.
@@gasixteenb11 I watched the other episode. I saw the rental properties. I making observations even though they do provide the tours if that's what they do. Some things should be left to the unknown. Portland maroon town do have tours but ty hey are more preserved, if I remember. I am going on bits of memory when I viewed the others.
@@ingridb1618 a lot is left unknown and that's been said in all Rochielin's Maroon journeys. Chief Curry said that during the celebration on 6th January only Maroon people are part of the final procession while the visitors are left at the Kindah tree until they return. No Maroon will ever share certain rituals or other information that can compromise their identity. Please also please do not assume the Maroons don't know what they are doing. I'll share this... the system of leadership not governance is what was bought from homeland and proven to work for the interest of a community. There are no budget being provided to Chief Curry or his Colonels for management of the State of Cockpit Country and for a very long time progress has been dependant on contributions from each member along with those from persons visiting or simply giving donations through Maroon official fund programs. It's not possible for anybody to just enter the State without knowledge of the Maroons and go roaming or destroying the environment. The Maroons do have a tested security system so be assured harm will only come to a violator and that was proven. Just ask about the man who went to dig for riches. Lolll.
How can I send money to help them
One thing wid Chief eno the man eva dripped out...
Blessings! Lets go, lets go🥳🥳.
Let’s goooooo!
@@Rochielin yes my love, we are going all the way🙌🙌. Let's goooooo!
Love your videos beautiful Rochelin! You & Wode Maya (Ghanaian TH-cam) need to link up & do a video together one of these days. Keep up the great work. May Yah continue to bless & keep you ❤️
Thank you, thanks for watching love. I would love to!
By the way you are doing a wonderful job
I thought he was gonna say the first thing he does when he rises is pray 🥲
I'm assuming the maroons are more of a spiritual people and not the religious type
@@Somewhat2c to achieve the benefits of spirituality one must practice & that is what creates the religion.
@@subconsciousexpress876 so what's their religion?
Okay so when i made my comment i was only highlighting that i personally expected him to say something different lol.
They probably are just “spiritual” but without dedication to practice it’s challenging to tell whether or not someone is experiencing the benefits of spiritual awareness. It’s just something I’m personally learning from studying ancient mysticism.
Gods info! 🌸☑️
Blessings my girl
The maroons are NOT sovereign and are no more indigenous to Jamaica than any other Jamaican.
I love history this episodes is everything
Happy you enjoyed it, thanks for watching love!
Ago shear this right yah now
Very good information.
👏🏾👏🏾
Wow. People really want to change history.
Les marrons (french) are just one of the tribes from Africa brought to the Caraïbe by the colonial
They are all over the mountains in Haiti and the other islands in the all Caraïbes.
Please God for preserving the culture which is no differente from. the others africans tribes
One of the lady dances exactly the same way as the Haitian from the mountain. Everything looks the SAME . I was choked to see the resemblance.
Thanks for that.
I hope they get their health center repaired soon.
Very interesting. I want to be a Maroon too. Do they accept outsiders?..🙂💚
So what happened to the king
Is there kings and queens?👸
How do we schedule to tour??
One Love ❤ ❤👍☺
❤️❤️
How could I get a video of my farm?
My wife loves listening to Shaggy. As a gag gift, I am giving her a picture of Shaggy with the caption "If fluffy white women were on my bucket list, you would be at the top of my list." My question is how would a Jamaican write these words?
Just like you did
You guys have good chemistry
Are they really indepdendent from Jamaica? I suggest you engage with the former chiefs two of which were members of the JCF.
What would he name his land and his ppl?
Anything you have to "bleep" out is cause for alarm. Is that thing now a god or just a bad thing?
Do they accept tourists?
Libations. Libations. Libations !
🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲👍👍👏👏😂😂🙏🙏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Is it as peaceful as it looks?
They do indeed try to be as peaseful and calm as possible
Yes a complete different vibe u inna dem hills. Peace n tranquility. Love d place
Heey! Why did you beep out the word covid?
Is the chief “attached”. Just curious😂😂😂
Lol
I bet you're asking for a friend
@@uhuru27 Yup🤣🤣🤣🤣. No! Not interested just curious. He is not a bad looking guy so I was just wondering 😂😂😂
Hey lol to whom, where and what. ??????????
How is a Maroon Chief chosen?
Do they have taxation powers?
And can non maroons live there
Your questions will be answered in the other episodes. Stay tuned.
ROCHIELINE,
MY STATEMENT DOES NOT REFLECT YOUR BLOGGING.
HOWEVER THIS CRAZY I REFUSE TO
WATCH.
I agree looking to the east.
We have to be careful of the information we put out there. The maroons in Jamaica initially had a great and powerful history of fighting the British and getting a treaty. However in subsequent wars the British thoroughly defeated the maroons and deported many of them and forced them to install a British soldier as the head of their forces. The maroons had to get the approval of the British to appoint a captain and were little more than an unpaid militia of the British who were compelled to come and fight alongside the British were Jamaica to be invaded. They were also little more than slave capturers, who were paid very little for the return of runaway slaves. What in that makes them sovereign. At most the maroon lands are a municipality of Jamaica and we are contributing to the endangerment of Jamaica and a division of its people if we continued to push a false narrative that two sovereign people share the island, utter nonsense. Jamaica is politically on country with a varied history of great people. The early maroons were the heroes. The later maroons devolved in nothing more than slave patrols and un unpaid militia. Rochielin, I love your channel and all of your contents except this. This narrative is very dangerous to the country I think.
The only people who are indigenous to Jamaica are the Arawaks and Caribs. But they're no more. The Maroons have the same genetic profile as the other JA residents. There's is only one sovereignty; and that is the government of JA, whose laws reign supreme. Considering the foregoing, the Maroons can be considered a subculture with alternate norms & more's.
Well actually there is one Sovereignty and that is the Creator of this world…this universe. The government is a temporary place holder chosen to rule for now and they are doing a horrible job. So maybe it is best these people try to manage themselves the best way they can because the government isn’t doing anything much for the rest of the Jamaican population🤷🏽♀️.
I see your point.
So the treaty is a non-conforming document? It can just be disregarded?
@@shauniek The constitution that brought forth JA independence didn't mention the Maroons' treaty, so it would appear to be inconsequential. So at this point in history, the JA government just tolerate their existence as a sort of beneficial ceremony.
@@franklinchinquee4293 I've seen clips of where the JA constitution said the laws pertaining to them remains. I think people who have their eyes on that piece of land should just leave the people alone. Jamaica should think of others ways than mining away it's environment to make capital.
The Maroons are not an independent people
Within Jamaica; that is a fallacy that they and those who don't know better says, they had a treaty with the British, which was revoked when Jamaica became an Independent Nation, they are subject to the
Laws of Jamaica As Any other Citizen, they have to use a Jamaican passport like the rest of us, they have the right to Vote in elections, Send their Children to Schools
Funded by the Government, there is no independent people apart from the Jamaican people.
How can you revoke a treaty ?dumb argument .
All my life I thought the Maroons were a tribe, only to find out the word Maroon is a British term for black person. They were a set of enslaved people who had had enough and fought for their freedom. I think half of who claiming to be Maroon are not even descendants of the original freedom fighters.
@@uhuru27 The Jamaican Maroons are our Jamaican Brothers
And sisters, but the truth is the Treaty that they sign with the British
is Now Null and Void, it was Repeal/Revoked/ Cancelled by the British
Themselves, When Jamaica became A Political Independent Country
With Effect from the 6th of August 1962, The Maroons Today are Jamaicans,
The Constitution of Jamaica is the Supreme Law in Jamaica, We are
All one people, They are Free To Carry on Their Tradition, And they are
Free to Mix and live Anywhere they Choose to in Jamaica, but They are
Not An Independent Sovereign Nation within Jamaica, proof of that is
There is no Such Thing As A Maroon pass-port,
Like the rest of us, they are entitled to police protection, they can Vote,
They are entitled to hospital Treatment, the Government of Jamaica
Must provide Schools for their Children, and they are entitled As Citizens
to Sharing in the General Economy, I'm not sure if they have to pay Tax
Like the rest of us,
Today, There is No distinction or difference Whatsoever, in the rights and
Obligations As defined by The Law of Jamaica, between persons residing in the Maroon Settlements and Those of Any Other Jamaican
Citizen, but this Idea That they Are a Sovereign Independent people
within Jamaica, is an illusion a Fantasy. that was some one hundred to
Two hundred years ago, Not Know.
Hey; u have a degree in sensibility well dun.
@@uhuru27how much so r 'nt u to use the word out of ( con ) text don't have any other way to xpress ur" frustration just asking. ??